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COPYING BOOK OR THE LIKE.

No. 335,916. Patented Feb. 9, 1886.

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PATET FFICE COPYlNG -BOOK OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,916, dated February 9, 1886.

' Application filed August 21, 1885. Serial No. 175,101. fModel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID W. GLASS, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Copying-Books or the Like, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to produce a Writing-book of any ordinary variety having a blotter so attached as to be capable of blot ting both sides of every sheet within the book, and being provided with a pen or pencil holder and one or more pockets in the covers, all three of these features being constructed and combined together in a simple, convenient, and economical manner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of an open copyboolnshowing the blotter and pen or pencil holder attached to the upper end of one part of the cover, and also showing pockets or portfolios for holding cards, copies, designs, or the like in the covers, one being indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 shows a blank for making my improved bookcover with one or two pockets. Fig. 3 shows a section 011 the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the letters upon the drawings, A indicates the book-cover, provided with a pocket, B. Such a cover can be made of a single blank, such as indicated in the full lines in Fig. 2.

The dotted lines B indicate another pocket upon the other part of the cover, such as can be made from the blank shown in Fig. 2 when it is of the shape indicated by the fulland dotted lines combined.

0 indicates'a blotter attached to the upper margin of one part of the cover, and adapt ed to fold into the book on either side of every leaf and serve both as a blotter anda bookmark. This blotter may be attached to either half of the bookcover-preferably, for convenience, at the top-by means of a strip of muslin, E, pasted to the blotter and cover.

F indicates a pen or pencil holder, formed of a folded strip secured by paste or the like between the two parts of the cover which form the pocket.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be seen that the edge of the folded strip which forms the pen or pencil holder and the edge of the strip which forms the hinge of the blotter are clamped between the edges of the two layers of one part of the cover which form the pocket.

This way of combining the pen-holder, blotter, and fastenings with the cover not only makes a neat finish, but it saves time in the manufacture of the book. It also makes a more secure and durable union of the parts, and is an important improvement in writingbooks of this class, in which neatness, cheapness, and durability, so far as practicable, are the objects aimed at.

I thus provide an exceedingly simple, cheap, and convenient book containing writing-paper which may be in the form of a tablet, a writing-book for children, a blank-book ruled for various kinds of business, &c.

When done using the book for writing, the blotter can be folded instantly over the writing and the book closed, and the blotter serves to mark the place.

In making tablets, provision can be made, as usual, for tearing out 1eaves,as indicated by the line ofperforations in Fig. 1.

I do not clainnbroadly, that a pen or pencil holder or a pocket or blotter is a new thing when attached to a book; but

\Vhat I claim as my improvements, and de sire to secure byLetters Patent of the Uniteil States, is-

1. The combination, with a book-cover, of a blotter hinged to the margin of one part of the cover between the folds which forma pocket, and adapted to fold into the book, so as to blot both sides of every sheet with equal facility, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cover, made of a singlepiece and having a pocket,with the pen or pencil holder, formed of a folded strip secured between the folds of the cover, substantiall y as set forth.

3. An improved copy-book composed of the cover,-made of one piece and having a pocket on each side, the blotter, hinged to the margin so as to blot both sides of every sheet, and a pen or pencil holder, attached between the leaves of the cover which form the pocket, substantially as set forth. p

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

DAVID XV. GLASS.

Witnesses:

MARCUS S. HOPKINS,

J. I. PEYTON. 

